Dubai

Harper’s Diplomacy

Scott Taylor talks about the problems with Harper’s Camp Mirage diplomacy For one thing, the location of Camp Mirage was always a closely protected secret. This was not done out of fear that terrorists would overrun the Canadian base, but rather to lessen the impact on the host nation regarding relations with its neighbouring states. [...]

9 Things I Learned in 2009: From Liquidity Crisis to Sovereign Debt Crisis

Dec 22nd, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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30 days after 9/11, I was in Seattle listening to Leonard Sweet talk at Soularize. He was saying before others that 9/11 would change everything and he was right in many ways but I think people will look back at the credit meltdown in 2008 and the response of world governments in 2009 as a [...]

The Decline of Dubai

Aug 25th, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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Fast Company has a photo essay of the decline of Dubai. Joi hasn’t posted a lot on his move to Dubai but he said in April that much of it’s demise is exaggerated.

The upside of down

Feb 23rd, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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This is a great photo by Bobby Yip/Reuters of unused shipping containers piled up at a storage depot in Hong Kong. The Chinese government is looking for places to store hundreds of thousands of unused containers expected to flood Hong Kong in the coming months due to China’s slow exports. As long time readers [...]